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...Archbishop of York, he has been Britain's second-ranking churchman since 1961, and he is known as a fine preacher, administrator and scholar. Another leading candidate was Bishop John Howe, who administers the worldwide Anglican Consultative Council and who, at 53, may yet have a chance at the top post. Coggan is generally viewed as an interim leader; he is expected to follow Ramsey's precedent and retire at 70, which will give him only five years in office. Meanwhile other, younger bishops will be seasoned, and a logical successor may emerge...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...
Though they sometimes seem like Anglo-Baptists, the Anglican Evangelicals are generally not of the Billy Graham "hot gospel" stripe. Coggan was trained at an Evangelical seminary and taught at two others, in Toronto and London. Since he became a bishop in 1956, he has avoided party entanglements and is viewed today as a solid churchman popular with all elements. However, his orientation is evident in his concern for preaching, his longtime presidency of the world union of Bible societies, his interest in the "Feed the Minds" campaign to supply Christian reading to newly literate peoples, and his major recent...
...major accomplishment was his rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, which led to agreements on the Eucharist and the ministry by a joint theological commission. His major failure, perhaps, was the defeat of his plan to merge with the Methodists, England's third largest church group after the Anglicans and Roman Catholics; the Anglican General Synod turned down Ramsey's proposal...
...fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church vestments by disclosing, "In some churches I wear no more than a black scarf." When last year one of his plans, to merge the 46 million-member Anglican community with 20 million Methodists, was defeated again, Ramsey came near to tears, then raised his hands above his head and quoted Godspell: "Long live...